Stefano Massini is an Italian writer, essayist and

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. He was born in

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in 1975, and studied Literature at the

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. He began his theatrical career at the

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, and at the

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. He is best known for ''

The Lehman Trilogy ''The Lehman Trilogy'' is a three-act play by Italian novelist and playwright Stefano Massini. It follows the lives of three immigrant brothers from when they arrive in America and found investment firm through to the collapse of the company in ...

'', which has played in both London and

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to great critical acclaim, and won the Tony Award for Best Play. The play was also the basis for his novel ''Qualcosa sui Lehman'', which won multiple awards. Some observers find the play's depiction of the Lehmans to be overtly anti-Semitic. His second novel was titled ''L'interpretatore dei sogni''. His work has been staged in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Canada, Argentina, Algeria, Peru, Mexico, South Korea, and Russia. He has won many prizes, among them the

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prize and the Ubu award.

Works in translation

* ''Qualcosa sui Lehman'' (2016) - ''

'', trans. Richard Dixon (2019) * ''Dizionario inesistente'' (2018) - ''The Book of Nonexistent Words'', trans. Richard Dixon (2021)

References

Italian male dramatists and playwrights University of Florence alumni 1975 births Living people Prix Médicis essai winners Tony Award winners {{playwright-stub